Hey everyone.
So I don’t know how often y’all get called by tech support scammers, but a couple days ago they achieved a new record in our house. They were calling almost all day — and at one point toward late evening, there were *SIX* messages on our answering machine all from the same outfit claiming to warn me about a breach in my iCloud account.
Is it getting worse?
dftf
<p>It would probably help if withheld-numbers stopped being a thing… many apps thesedays have lists of numbers that are known to be spam and will block them — but obviously they cannot filter withheld as there is no number. So your only option is to allow all withheld, or block all.</p><p><br></p><p>Here in the UK, there are agencies you can report silent calls, robot (autodialler) calls, dropped calls and repetitive calls to, but they all ask for the number you were called by.</p><p><br></p><p>While I'm sure there are legitimate uses for withholding a number, it does add to the problem…</p>